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[News] A1200 USB board available end of AprilANN.lu
Posted on 04-Apr-2001 13:08 GMT by Christian Kemp5 comments
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Kenny Marx wrote: A new Universal Serial Bus board will be released for the Amiga A1200 at the end of April AmiSoft, A Belfast based Amiga company have been working on the USB board for some time and are now in the final stages of testing the completed board. The board connects to the clock port on the 1200, providing a passthrough socket for other cards as well. A small PCB sits on the clock-port header and the 2 USB ports are then accesed through the spare slot at the back of the Amiga. A tower version is also available with backing plate.

The unit is expected to ship for around £60 initially, but can be pre-ordered at a reduced rate. AmiSoft are ideally looking for 500 pre-orders to cover development costs, and insure other versions of the board are released.

AmiSoft have produced quality, low-cost Amiga peripherals since 1991, including MIDI connectors, multi-port joystick expanders and various software projects. They began developing the interface before PCI boards were available for the 1200, but project manager, Tony Burrows thinks their board should still succeed "The AmiSoft USB board can of course work alongside a PCI/ISA bus, therefore eliminating the need for a USB PCI card and leaving valuable space free for other more demanding cards."

Amisoft currently have no Web-page, but have set-up a mailbox for enquiries: USBinfo@the-computer.co.uk

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Posted by Bill Toner on 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
If this can be made to also work with the clockport-compatible slots found on the X-surf
and any other cards that might have them, I'd be interested. I have an A4000T, which
now with Prometheus can finally have PCI, I'd prefer to keep USB as an addon to my
X-surf to leave room in the PCI slots for a good graphics card, sound card, their
planned PowerPC G3 card, and 100Mbit ethernet. (perhaps making the Xsurf mostly redundant
other than as a clockport adaptor) What other Zorro cards out there have A1200 clockport
compatible connectors? This method also has the benefit of providing USB to A2000
users who still can't use Prometheus or anything else for PCI slots...
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